Criminal justice

Baltimore police officers responding to the 1300 block of North Montford Avenue late Friday found a 19-year-old man, a 25-year-old woman and a 7-year-old boy suffering from injuries. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the head.

Bates said the charges against the three women would have been dropped after they completed five hours of community service through Baltimore’s citation docket program. They spent "approximately 19 hours" in Central Booking, he said.

Christopher Morton, known by his producer name “WhiteBoy,” worked frequently with some of Baltimore’s top rappers, including YG Teck, OTR Chaz, Roddy Rackzz and 448 RIQ.

Texts messages obtained through a public records request reveal communications between officials during key City Council budget hearing.

Baltimore County Police say they used DNA evidence to connect James Shipe Sr. to five rapes, the first of which happened in 1978.

Patrick Wojahn, 47, pleaded guilty to 60 counts of distribution of child pornography, 40 counts of possession of child pornography and 40 counts of possession of child pornography with the intent to distribute, according to a press release from the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office.

The defense team for Adnan Syed submitted legal arguments to Maryland’s highest court Wednesday, asking the justices to reverse an appellate decision that reinstated his murder conviction in the killing of Hae Min Lee.

A patient escaped from one of Maryland’s state-run psychiatric hospitals Tuesday evening by exiting through a shot-out window and fleeing in a waiting getaway car, according to local police.

The state, which took over the Baltimore’s jails decades ago, has struggled to meet court deadlines to fix health care in its facilities.

The Baltimore Banner obtained more than 100 pages from the internal investigative file, including the officer’s claim that he used a Taser on the boy by accident.

Donald Trump has been charged by the Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It’s the third criminal case brought against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House.

Chris Bendann, 39, of Towson, worked at the Gilman School, a private, independent, all boys school in Roland Park in Baltimore from 2007-2023. He’s charged with sexual abuse of a minor and related offenses.

Circuit Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. found that Deborah Katz Levi did not have a conflict of interest in continuing to represent David Linthicum.

William "Chris" McCollum, 52, of Lutherville-Timonium, acted as the treasurer of two campaign committees and most recently served as deputy director of economic development for Baltimore County.

Baltimore Police said they allowed the cleaning of "debris" before they finished processing the scene of the city's largest mass shooting in recent memory. Experts say valuable DNA evidence could have been lost in the process.

Their stories were in the massive report on sex abuse in Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese, but a key detail was missing: the name of one of the men who they say raped them.

Officers restrained the man, put him in handcuffs and placed him on his side on a stretcher. First-responders started providing medical aid after he was loaded into an ambulance. The man became unresponsive after several minutes.

A 16-year-old boy was found dead 1900 block of Copeland Street off Forest Drive.

McGrath, the former top aide to Gov. Larry Hogan, skipped his federal fraud trial in Baltimore and evaded authorities for weeks before FBI agents tracked his car to a Costco Wholesale store outside Knoxville, Tennessee.

Experts say the case exposes deep flaws in a system that places undue burden on those subjected to abuse to stay safe.